Background
Hirokage Togashi was born in 1793 in Wakayama, Japan.
広蔭 富樫
Hirokage Togashi was born in 1793 in Wakayama, Japan.
Interested in studies at an early age, he studied the Japanese classics under Haruniwa Moto-ori the son of Norinaga Motoori, at Matsuzaka (Mie Prefecture).
Later Hirokage Togashi succeeded the Onijima family as Shinto priest at Kuwana (Mie Prefecture) and called himself Togashi. Among his works are "Study of Kojiki," "On Nihon Shoki" and "Out-line of Genji Monogatari."